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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






2. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






3. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






4. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






5. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






6. What a story or play is about.






7. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






8. A short saying with a moral.






9. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






10. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






11. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






12. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






13. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






14. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






15. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






16. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






17. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






18. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






19. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






20. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






21. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






22. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






23. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






24. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






25. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






26. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






27. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






28. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






29. A strong pause within a line.






30. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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31. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






32. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






33. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






34. The organizational form of a literary work.






35. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






36. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






37. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






38. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






39. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






40. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






41. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






42. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






43. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






44. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






45. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






46. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






47. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






48. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






49. The selection of words in a literary work.






50. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.